VOL. ( V.XO. 38. RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA, TUESDAY, OCT. 9, 1SCO. T i: It M s : TWO POM.AKS A YiiAlt. IN AUVAXCL'. 1 I f in ?! it 1 f! I 1 I H Hvsiaess .Votice. a rg i .. ' .... ... ... - Ate.. Cmnru '....I..,-,..,,... o n .1 ' 1 1. ., iCb18Ls'" ispnkli!ie4iB Kalei-b.c- , i WW' a I out i r.'n. .thi. v. p 1 11.1,1 I-. i.i-j. rv Tarfi-s ro,a-- - a rear. papsrs are " ,-ntimid at the expiration f the io paid , ti tWv1 ested t r.'e on their f iteJ t w user sit vs. m ill te rusi.W oJ the .icuoai. anx tiifttiiuiii if qui 11 tu lreliB jtreiheri? are Agest; open aeeovBtF kft i'b tbcu. cvu.iiu.a of prompt rUleBfVta at Celeri-tice. Ari;BTin : fii;j;jf f I! .irls, first iu5;U-tiu,i. Fur h esWseijweBt insertion, Basiae? Cardiff te lw, per tv. S 6 00 A 55fe f - haet r Iks, pi-r .annum, 10 (1(1 All scctieu fr ad'ertisiag we dae atlbetiaie f tbe let 1 1 iicrtiun, r rhc- prcfeisJoii. mn t.ln'ir iier OJilGINAL. . . , .,, ,v x. . Jtii J' . j , ' ' oiae pcoidc value proiessions in the . ' J., . ' j pro port wa that tlioy jrutine taiue. and 1 J ii ... position, lijjrouly ambition and lust lor praissare always 'o be ceusured ; but a seu.-iLle regard tor the esteem of these who are both wise ad good Is uuobjeetiouablti. iSueh esteem is encouraging and uiay be iunocejjtly iaspiriDg V thegwd. .u let it be re u; em le red that there U a world of JiffereDcf- between beiDg notorious and be iucr.vrw"af y ju-nhnJ. Ner and lyonicious were notorious and yet they are named with a. sliadder, and distingurshed by their hideous vrtxehy alone. Who would be re membered as the heartless l)antou or hw aecoujjjiftf.s? Such uieu are made emiu fiit by their violence to the rights aud .happiness of others. 3Jay Heaven fbrfend the calamity of such distinction .' ut Ls not that 'jrui" which the world gives its heroes in every department, almost al ways composed in part of regard bestowed on actions, which partake of this violence o a greater or less degree? Is a lawyer always on the right side? I tees he always lefeud the innocent? Does he not run a risk of being as often an advocate against justice as j'tr justice? loes he uicoppress the helpless and harmless oftentimes? Is lie not then the admired and lauded hero f inhjuity ? Uh, think! who it is that praises him in such instances ; and think of the atre of that praise: and think of the motives which inspire it. Corrupt indeed must that luan be who can glory in the admiration which the despicable and guilty give him for ha ing shielded them from justice, by his having brought injury, shame and calamity to the noble, truu and unoffendiug. Yet such is apt,' very apt to be a large part of the praise, which the life i-f a lawyer secures. Of course I do not intimate that members of the legal profession seek such praise fur the sake of it, or with a knowledge that their clients are of that detestable character; but I menu that in the nature of the esse, a law yer eanu-Jt always be on the right side, if he sought to be so, and that there is a i.,ig side and a right one to every ipi )s- 1 -'f-'i'r. an advocates on r'li moVa A prais.-' n one to '1ut tne predicate of -eijiii fe dislike and often bitterness on i the other, y If one man is cleared, perhajjs .mother is convicted. If one is made happy, peri japs another is made miserable. If o:ie man j('ins. perhaps another loses, &c-. &.c. 1'r aise from such a life must be embittered. - Iu politi. very few ever receive much more than gaseous, 4th of July sort of praise wh has aljout as little ''heart" in it as the f- ise that is given to the fire works at a celebration. Some receive more, but they often enjoy only the manifesta tions of party prejudice aud a flimsy enthu-f-iasni, which is fed on newspapers aud cross-road ebulitions of senseless ranting. The statesmen and the lofty politicians are extremely few. They sometimes enjoy Much love and praise, and most justly de-.-erve it. But after alL the praise that good peo ple give t a faithful minister is the most ::iviable that man has ever received. Of the two I would rather the fn'urt should j. raise me than the hrtul. The highest luouumcnt is built of grateful, loving L-arts, and the grandest salvoes are those that are whispered with almost Leaven 'y eloquence in the chambers of pious souls. This monument and these salvoes are the true minister s. It is best to have that praise, which Ls thought in the head, and felt in the heart. Such praise is the faith ful minister's. A. W. 31. AtKOS-S THE CONTINENT. '0. It. Agricultural L'ujMibiiifux of the. Pitrific Stai- fitirramritto OfIAq"i!ntaurc (.'iimjt-nwiwrf Mutfiotlht Stitytiitj An limiting Fidd. The time will come when California will be as distinguished for her fruits and agricultural products as for her mineral wea.'th. Her mines seem inexhaustible and dMi'ot;?ssitew discoveries are yet to be made, but her capacity for cereal crops is very partially developed. Lands which yield from thirty to fifty bushels of wheat per acre and from seventy to eighty bushels of barley are too remunerative to lie idle long. As a grazing country it has declined anil will continue to decline. The wild oats once so luxuriant have deterior ated in height and quantity. The increase of stock aud elo.-e mowing iu a few years more will exterminate them. When the now open valley shall be iuclosed and the labor of the skilful husbandman shall be applied to her soil, the Pacific State will become the granary of ihe world. Her exports of wheat will astonish those who Lave thought of her only as the land of gold. 3Iuch of the precious metals which her people dig from the gulches aud the mountains and which she sends to the East by the million every month, will return to her coined and stamped and ready for use. Considering the length and breadth of this great country, there are but few large streams and yet well nigh all the most in teresting points of the State may be reach ed from San Francisco by water. Her bays, rivers, and creeks and lakes are all more or less navigable. The waters of Feather Itiver ave so constantly plied with boats that at the lowest stage navigation continues, for the water and sand are so mixed that they are always fluid enough to allow a passage. On one of my trips up the river, the boat was ploughing along through a sand bed, with only a few inches of water upon the top when I remarked to the Captain, that he was certainly making his last trip for the season. He replied, by do means, we never cease to run on this river if however, no boats were to tor over with us till the rainy season comes on. i But you set, sir, we keep moving and keep j things stirred up, and so we can always J -"""cr . i ' ' oacraiueiico is a neailt, mi cuv 01 u or :w.uvu m uaouau cs. ii is uuui on a main running back from the river and in loca tion, size, wide streets, buildings and trees. greatly resembles Augusta, Georgia. This was the first point in the State 1 visited after our arrival, and here at difiercut times 1 spent several pleaant days, form ed new aud renewed old acquaintances. j To Capfc. Littleton and family, we are in i dt'bted ivr mauy kiudne-ses on our first j visit and indeed every succeeding one. j We were stransrers and they took us iu ! and treatd us on all occasions with gene- ! . !iS hospitality- Iuch to mv surinse. J tcuiid a olu pupil ot mine. Airs. Harris , 1 .... , now, luruierly a .Miss Jryan, ot Oa.. and i . ' , i . , i , ' i her husband and herself would have us to i , . . . il ... , tauee made this habitation more like home than ever the heartfelt kindness of entire strangers could do at other places. Used to parsonages and preachers I found anoth er home with Brother and Sister Evans. All these and others gave more thanacup of cold water, for Christ's sake, as well as through courtesy, to a stranger the Lord reward them an hundred fold here and for ever. I attended seven Camp-meetings in California and was deeply interested in them, not only as a minister looking to great moral results, but as a man who, familiar with such gatherings in the east, saw them here under new aspects and sur roundings. ('amp-meetings here are very unlike any thing of that - name elsewhere. A place is selected near to water if possible, if no running stream wells or pumps are brought into requisition, and the next essential is a grove of live oaks. These are necessary that with their umbrageous tops, they may help to form an arbor in the first place, and then they are convenient to shade the tents. The grounds are not laid off square or oblong, or iudeed in any way. They are innocent of all shape. One man pitches under one tree, smother under another. ami so on; the thickest shade is chosen for the preaching place and the preachers' tent is always jam up to the pulpit "the stand." If among the interlacing branch es, there are any breaks through which the sunshine streams down, some brushes or planks are put up, seats of various kinds are provided, straw laid down and all is ready. The tents are made by set ting a few poles about eight feet long in the ground and surrounding them with cotton cloth. If the shade of the tree is not douse enough, cloth or brush or plank is put on the top. There are but few fritters; seven is the most at any one place I visited, three, two, one and none, and yet the congregations were large at all ilffheyi by day or night. The P. Elders, I believe generally carry their own tents. Some of the preachers too I noticed had tents of their own and carried sticks, cloth and all in their buggies. To feed the people two arrangements prevail. In sonic cases, the jieople in the circuit furnish the provision aud hire a man or men to cook, and icrtj Ijtjthj nits it ttr xii nu' tnbb . fri'c of fust to thi- rttfi-rs, but at a heavy expense to the providers. These meetings cost from 700 to 1.000 dollars. At another place a pub lic tent is put up and a contract is made with some man to furnish the table at so much a head, say twenty-five cents a day, and this I believe is the more common method. Another peculiarity of those meetings is, that a time is set to begin without any understanding as to the time of ending. They last from four to fifteen days, accord ing to circumstances. I attended one when the P. K. and a visiting preacher were the only tenters, and the preacher in charge was the cook for the whole congre gation. The irreligious people of the neighborhood furnished the provisions. 3Iany of those things seemed to me very awkward and inconvenient, but I soon be came accustomed to them and really enjoy ed them. They strikingly illustrate the old saying, "where there is a will there is a way." The preachers and people in C. have a Kill to work for God and by all means to save souls, and like Paul not waiting for things "made ready to their hands," they go at it careless of time or expense or inconvcuience. The blessing of God rests upon them like dew. I luve seen the power of God upon the people in awakcnings.eonversions.and in the bapt'sSn of the church. On these occasions, theie is a heartiness, a freedom from constraint, a free gushing of religious emotion that is refreshing. A false and foolish civilization has not yet crushed out all the pious inde pendence of the disciples, and the free en joyment of spiritual influence without re gard to "the fear of man" I trust will long survive the "progress " of the times. It would regenerate our old time preachers to hear the singing about the altar at one of these exti'mjiaram oits Camp-meetings iu California. It is not a fossil, but a living type of the better days what Beecher calls "genuine old Jlethodist thunder. A little more of the same sort in the cast, would reform the false taste, the pernicious fastidiousness pf those who are doing their best to deform, the singing of our people. As it conies in my way, this is as good a time as any to say that to substitute the praise of GmI by music is as wicked as it is unmethodistic. Ihe difficulty with us. is not want of science, but want of religion. This is the secret which underlies all our complaints. I have seen many a dumb church grow vocal with song while re vival fire was burning. No education in notes, no artistic training of the voice will supply the lack of heartfelt piety where God is to be praised. A courageous, free, lively religion will always find expression in the simple melodies of the church, while operatic music stiff, formal, soullesssing ing will freeze and kill "the things that remain, that are ready to die." Pardon this digression. The religion cf our people in California is of the right kind, active, fearless, stirring. They can weep without shame, sing and pray without constraint, shout, defying the world and the devil. The only capital defect is one incident to their circumstances. In the midst of a new country, the people excited by gold and speculation, surrounded by novel scenes and circumstances, society unset tled, sometimes transient, in many places perpetually changing, the church has not been as systematically organized as it ought to be. The most of the preachers too have I pass iu two days, and thus give time to ! these sands to .settle, it would all be ove been inexperienced, untrained themselves and or course have relied upon revivals and protracted efforts hero and there the negleet of discipline, clasj-uieotings and the indoctrination of their converts, (A change for the better is begun and I trust will sro on to perfection.) I mention this here not because it is a fact merely iu California, but because it is in my judg ment a common error. We lose in one "way very much of what we gain in the oth- er. Un tins point 1 hope to enlarge before very long, for I think it vital. .My main reason for the statement above, is to show the necessity of sending more experienced men to the Pacific Conference. There is not iu the bounds of Southern 3Iethodisii a more inviting field than this. No place where a man can do more permanent good in a greater variety id ways. 3Ien. educa- ted men, men of long and varied experi - enee, who understand our church polity and deeply imbued with the love of Christ can do immense good by training the preachers, preaching to the people, as a counsellor in church enterprises, in Con ference business, in moulding the institu tion of an incipient empire. Before 1 am done writing and talking for California, the brethren will find out that 1 am in earnest. I have, lost this year by chill and fever, but my spirit in relation to our interests there knows no chill, and my desire to help our struggling church on the Pacific coast keeps up to fever heat. G. F. PIERCE. Sunshine, Sjt. Vlth, 18(50. S. C. Atfcortifr. THE NEWS FROM CHINA. 31a. Editor : Our bar! or is full of English and French men-of-war, and our streets full of red coats ami blue coats, red caps and green caps, and all the speckled, grizzled, riug-strcaked and striped frater nities belonging to the naval and military orders ot -tiiigland and r ranee, fcome wear medals on their breasts, some blue ribbons and glittering stars ; and Mime one thing and some another, not one-half of which i pretend to understand. I suppose some of them are official badges, others Crim ean medals, etc. The i-'reueh officers are the '.nost fantastic looking creatures I ever saw. 31ost of them wear red pants, with a dark stripe running down outside the leg. small red caps covered with a great deal of geld tinsel, and a profusion of chains and ribbons twisted about the neck and shoulders. The soldiers are gay t nongh. and bad enough. The English are much more genteel, and indeed, supe rior in every respect to the French. We see here hundreds of redcoats just precise ly like those 3Iarion used to chase through North Carolina. The English are a patriotic people; they love their country, and their good Queen Vie. This is her birthday, and. while I write, the house is shaking with the roar of cannon, as they roll forththeir patriotic thunders in honor of the great est woman in the world The English are always burning gunpowder, either iu salu ting their friends or shooting their ene mies. There is one gun-boat lying in the har bor, with the stripes andstars floating over her quarter-deck the Saginaw. This sol itary little boat is the only representative of our great Yankee nation's power and glory iu these waters. The Chinese do not fear us I do not know that they hate us I doubt if they love us. We are re garded by them as a good sort of people, who love money more than foreign terri tory or military glory. Ours is the great flowery Bug country." That is all. It is saiil there are now thirty thousand English and French troops in the China sea. No fighting has yet taken place. Gossip says Lord Elgin is charged with a message of peace, and that on his arrival things will likely assume a less warlike as pect. Of the object of his visit, we of course know nothing. The Chinese expect to fight, hope to gain another great victo ry, but are not too confident to make ar rangements for a different result. As to any reliable information concerning the war, except that there are troops here, and that actual hostilities have not yet begun, I can furnish none. The North China Herald, which I hope now reaches you regularly, will furnish all the information known to the public here. Missionaries and merchants are visiting the country in terior for many miles without any moles tation. Brother Lambuth is at this time in the country with twoWeslcyan mission aries. The Nanking rebels are taking posses sion of all the chief cities in the Southern provinces. Serious fears are now enter tained for the present capital of this prov ince. The Imperial forces seem unable to check their progress in the least. The ap proaching conflict between the foreign troops and this government, has encour aged the rebels to hope for the speedy downfall of the Tartar dominion. Should Pekin be taken by the English and French, there is every reason to beliee that thu days of the Tartars in China would be iiumber,ed. It is difficult to say what we ought to expect in the event of the rebels taking the supreme control. Their Chris tianity is, to say the least of it, exceeding ly doubtful Soin-3 persons at a distance, who know nothing about them, call them saints, etc. I wish I could believe it. China is dying of old age and moral cor ruption. What will the new China be? All well. Your brother in Christ. W. G E. CUNNYNG II A3J. Shanghai, China, 3Iay 24, 18G0. JOHN "WESLEY'S REUNION. When dying. John Wesley quoted his brother Charles' hymn beginning, 'Let the worlil their virtue boast," dwelling with peculiar emphasis on the lines, "I tbe chief of sinners am, But Jesus died for mv' This great man reached the conclusion of the apostle Paul, to whom we have of ten fancied he bore a strong resemblance, both in thecharacter of his mental organ ization and evangelical spirit. A sense of total unworthiness and a perfect reliance on the all-sufficiency of Christ, are the es sential elements of a true religious faith. L0VK THE FULFILLING OF THE LAW. The warmth of the spring draws out the sap of trees into a sprouting greenness, and the peace of God refreshes the soul into a flourishing obedience. Some who profess that they enjoy an ocean of peace, express not a drop of obedience. Suppose their profession true, they defraud God j but it being false, they delude themselves. THAT SVNDAY .SCHOOL ri'RLISHIXG IT-NIK Another important -reason why we need to ; this fund is, that we nav be able to cheap en llie prices of our Sunday School books, j The complaint is constantly coming up t j us, -'Why don't you sell your Sunday ! School ioiks as cheaply as those of the American Sunday School Union?" Our answer is this : We sell them at a mere j trifle more than it costs to pay fir the j type-setting, stereotyping paper, ink.prin- j; I tinir and minima:, i nat " I ruoii sells us j ( own publications, often, for much less than they cost. How c:;n it do this : .because i it has just such a fun 1 as that for which i ; we now ask, to draw from, and so pay the ' diflerence between tl e actual cost of the j book, and the 1 iwir price at which they i sell it. Give us this fund, and then we ! shall be able to do the same. Th:t is, to .i sell our books below their cost, and to give j them away to those destitute schools, which cannot afford to pay anything at all for them. How much more creditable it wonld be to 3Iethodtsts, instead of buying other pub lications, because they are a little cheaper, to give liberally toward tne creation ol a Sunday School Publishing Fund of our own. which would enable us to supply our own schools with our own books, on terms as low as the lowest. How much will you give towards it ? Any sums may be forwarded to the treas urer of our society, ltev. J. B. Mci'Vrriu, I ..).. Nashville, Tenu., or to Charles Tay lor, Columbia, S. C, Corresponding Sec retary, S. S. Society of the 31. E. Church, South. I'EACE IN ZI0X. Peace in the church is worth any sacri fice except the sacrifice of truth and con science. Personal preferences, opinions about questions of mere expediency diver sities of taste, natural antipathies of tem perament for all these may coexist with the deepest piety are to yield to the claims of christian charity. The Holy Ghost writes this on all truly regenerate hearts. " Hereby we know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren" love them in spite of all and every difference Of" natural disposi tion and mental characteristics. In this union of christian hearts there is Divine strength and beauty. It is " sweet and pleasant," says the Boyal Singer. Whoso ever needlessly introduces the least ele ment of discord into the church, is guilty of the betrayal of II im who bought it with his most precious blood. Be patient in dealing with the erring. Love will con quer iu the end, for it is God's weapon. Complain less, and pray more. Entreat, but. do not denounce. Weep, if you feel like it, for the desolations of Jerusalem, but lift no rod of vindictive punishment again.-t your frail and fallibK: fellows. While the world is striving and tossing a- lxmiuf let them be Irene in yimi. I .'t th-i J:-i!lowed atmosphere of the sum tuary oe uuuisturneu ny me voice oi angry cen sure or bitter reproach. Love one anoth er, and let love be without dissimulation. This is an unvarying condition of prosper ity, anil the evidence of it. It is a mark of spiritual growth and christian perfec tion. Hear the apostle, "Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the (Jod of love and peace shall be with you." 2 Cor. xii L, 11. 1 rijic Jfeth ot 1 ist. DESCENDANTS OF HUMANISTS IN 3 A TAX. A curious letter from Rev. 3Ir. Brown, in -Japan, is given in the New Y ork Evan gelist. He reports that it is said by 3Ir. Harris's interpreter, 3Ir. Heuski, and the French Abbe, who is attached to the French Legation as an interpreter, that there are at Ycddo one hundred fam ilies living in a quarter of the city by them selves, and receiving each five rations of rice per diem, from the Emperor's store house, which families are the descendants of one hundred Boman Catholics that re canted at the persecution, two hundred years or more ago, and who were required to keep up a knowledge of lloinanisiu. so that, from generation to generation, they might act as detectives of llonianists iu the country. The above-named gentle men assert that the descendants of those recan ters still receive their regular allow ance from the Emperor. If so, it would be exceedingly interesting to know how far they have retained among them any correct knowledge of the llomanist faith. One would suppose that their notions would become somewhat confused and incorrect after transmission by mere tradition through so many generations. The exis tence of such a body of men shows that the Japanese government does not forget the past, and is very perseveringly . vigi lant against the introduction of Roman Catholicism into their country. Another fact shows the same. In various parts of the country, along the roads, there are wood en tablets set up on which imperial orders are recorded. One contains, among other things, an offer of 8200 or $300 for the detect ion of any "Catholic, Romanist, or Brethren" among the people. These of fers are the same that were made two cen turies ago, and as often as they become de faced by exposure to the .weather, they arc retouched with India-ink, to render them again legible. The Methodist. A BALL THAT HITS. The following condemnation of fashiona ble preaching is hard, but it is a true shot in some quarters. It is from "The Hoini iist," a work just published: " Well, dearly beloved brethren, I have come into your pulpit to-day because I have agreed to come. It is in the terms of an old contract between us; a contract that was formed, to be sure, when I was disposed to take a somewhat more fanatical view of the matter than I do at present. But I respect the bargain ; worship is a social decency, and a graceful adjunct to civilization. Established usage looks in this direction, and religious institutions are a politic kind of constabulary. I am here in my place as the bell rings, and I take occasion to say that it is proper you should be saved. The Bible is pronounced authentic by competent antiquarians, and has uncommon literary merits. The laws of good breeding have settled it that virtue is a desirable accomplishment, besides be- ! ing a safe protection against unpleasant! penalties invented by magistrates; aud I christian faith I will recommend as a pru- j dent specific against disagreeable conse-i quences generally reported to follow wicked courses. Amen." i A I'll TI RE OF WESLEY'S TIMES. Thackeray's Lecture on the Second George, published in Harper, makes one feel that a reformation was needed : As I peep into George H.'s St. James' I see crowds of cassocks rustling up the backstairs of the ladies of the court; stealthy clergy slipping purses into their ; Japs; trial godless old king yawning uu : der his canopy in his chapel royal, as the j chaplain before him is discoursing. Pis- coursing what '! about righteousness and judgment? While the chaplain is preach ing, the king is chattering in German al most as loud as the preacher; so loud, that, the clergyman it may be one Dr. Young, he who w rote "Night Thoughts," and dis coursed on the splendors of the stars, the gl tries of heaven, tsnd utter vanities of this "u;Vd actually burst out . crying in his pulpit, because the defender of the .faith, and dispenser of bishoprics, would not lis ten to him. No wonder that the clergy were corrupt and indifferent amidst this indifference and corruption. No wonder that skeptics multiplied, and morals degen erated, so far as they depended on the in fluence of such a king. No wonder that Whitfield cried out in the wilderness that Wesley quitted the insulted temple to pray on the hill-side. I look with rever ence on those men at that time. Which is the subliuier spectacle the good John Wesley, surrounded by his congregation of miners at the pit's mouth, or the queen's chaplains mumbling through their morn- ing office in their ante-room, under the picture of.Uje great Venus, with the dm opened hithe adjoining chamber, whei the (iiieeii is dressing, talking scandal i tor :ere the (iiieeii is dressing, talking scandal to Lord'IJervy, or uttering sneers at Lady imiiIoJk, who is kneel'.njj at her mistress's side ? with the basil. 1 -ay i am searct as I look round at this society, at this king, at these courtiers, at t hese politicians, :U those bishops, at this flaunting vice and lcvity'JtWhcrcabouts in this court is the honest mail ? Where is the pure persen one may like ? The air stifles one with its sickly perfumes. There are some old worid follies, and some absurd ceremonial about our court of the present day, which i laugh at ; but. as an Englishman, con trasting it with the past, shall I not ac knowledge the change of to-day? As the mistress of St. J allies passes me now, 1 sa lute the sovereign, wise, moderate, exem plary of life; the good mother; the good wife; the accomplished lady ; thecKiight oncd friend of art; the tender sympathizer in her people's glories and sorrows. I'KKr'ECTIOS. T.Y JOHN WESLEY. What is the perfection of which man i capable, while he dwells in a corruptibi It is the complying with thai ki ( :'i!iiii:ind. -31 y sou. give me thy heart." It is the his heart ovmg tltc Lord lnst.od with ail ina wiiu ;tii ins soul, ami Willi i -.1 '.ii i i -i i:)l hn mind." tiaii verfe tioi This is it is a!) lie sum of Chris- lsed in that .:' Viord ivb. 1 he firs! branch id' ic the love of God : and, as lie that loves God joi es liis brother also, it. is inseperably con nected with the secjud. "lnou shaft love thy lieighuoras tnyseit. x liou snalt -Jove every man as thy ow n soul, as Christ lin ed Us. "On these twoeomtuaiidmentshang all the law and the prophets;' the.-e contain the whole of Christian perfection. Another view of this is given us in those words of the great apostle, "Let this mind be in 3 011 which was also in Christ Jesus." ,'"or although this immediately and direct fy refers to the humility of our Lord, yet it may be taken in a far more exenstive sense so as to include the whole disposi tion of his mind, all his affections, all his tempers, both towards God and man. Now, it is certain that, as there was no evil affection in Him, so 110 good affection or temper was wanting. So that "whatsoev er things are holy, whatsoever things are lovelv, are all included in the mind that was in Christ Jesus." St. Paul, when writing to the Galatians, places perfection in yet another view. It is the one undivided fruit of the Spirit, which he describes thus: "The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, fidelity," (so the word ,-hould be translated here.) "meek ness, temperance." What a glorious con stellation of graces, is here! Now, sup pose all these things to be knit together in one. to be united together iu the soul of a believer, this is Christian perfection. Again: He writes to the Christians at Ephesus, of "putting on the new man, which is created after God in righteous ness and true holiness ;" and to the Col lossians, of "the new man renewed after the image of him that created him," plain ly referring to the words in Gen. i. 27, "So (iod created man in hisown image." Now the moral image of God consists (as the apostle observes) "in righteousne ;s aud true holiness." By sin this is totally des troyed. And we never can recover it till we are "created anew in Christ Jesus." And this is perfection. Sc. Peter expresses it in a still different manner, though to tiie same effect: "As he that hath calied you is holy, so be ye holy, in ail manner of conversation." 1 Peter L 15. According to this apostle, then, pad'ectiou is another name for uni versal liSli'ness; inward and outward right eousness ; holiness of life, arising from ho liness of heart. I f any expression can be stronger than these, they are those of St. Paul to the Thessaloniarib, ljustle, v. o"J : "The God of pence himseli-san'ctify you wholly; and may the wr.ole of you, the spirit, the soul, and the body, (this is the literal transla tion,) be preserved blameless unto the com. ing of our Lord Jesus Christ." We cannot show this sanctification in a more excellent way than by eomplyingwith that exhortation of the apostle, "I beseech you, brethren by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies, (yourselves, your souls and bodies ; a part put for the w hole, by a common figure of speech.) a living sacrifice unto God," to whom ye were con secrated many years ago in baptism. When what was then devoted is actually presented to God, then is the man of God perfect. To the same effect, St. Peter says, 1 Ep. ii. 6 : "Ye are a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God. through Jesus Christ." But what sacvi- ces shall we offer now, seeing the Jewish dispensation is at an end ? If you have truly presented yourselves to God, you of- fer up to him continually all your thoughts and words, and actions, through the Son of his love, as a sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving. Thus you experience that he whose name is called Jesus does not bear that name in vain; that he does, in fact, "save his peo ple from their sins. "the root as well as the branches. And this salvation from sin. J from all sin, is another description of per I fectioiiy though indeed it expresses only j the least, the lowest branch ot it; only the negative part ol the great salvation. ikei.a.n 11 - FumTuTTii i. revival. A friend wrote on the 27th ult., from the neighborhood of Belfast, a;i follows : "Here I am, in the very place to which my longing thoughts have been tending ever since 1 have read the accounts of the revival. 'Ihe day I arrived, my cousin inquired in one of the neighboring cottages, w here the prayer meeting would be held. As I could not, 011 account of my health, walk any dis;!;iee, I concluded to husband my stierigth ior one on .valbatli evening held by the converts. In this I was foiled. But alter the meeting at that time, one of the servants who had been there came in, and said, "they are coming." On walk ing to the gate, the most beautiful music came wafting up the road from about 20 persons, the very youngest, perhaps a child of ten years. '1 hey ail work in the flax mills. Just before reaching aunt's gate they commenced singing the twenty-third psalm in meter. That completely overwhelmed me. I thought, "Hear people I you w need the faith expressed in the first verse of that psalm before the winter closes," as the hay was staiutingout, almost destroyed by the rains, and not any of the grain gath ered 111. Oil ! what a scene for angels to look on. Hearts that a few short months ago were all moral defilement now singin the praises of God now the temples of the Holy Ghost, lhese are not ashamed to tell what the Lord litis done for them. Four of that little company had spoken or prayed at the meeting. It is customary for them to sing psalms 011 returning to their homes. Jlns pas sage came to my mind forcibly, " ith singing shall they return to Zioii." It was a beautilijT.'iwoonlight night. The bay iu '.he distanpb and the mountains round us, and this group of goodly ones, singing pi iri ses to the God of all, with the heart, ami with the understanding, all moved me. Their music was in perfect harmony and time. Before this revival, aunt was exceed ingly annoyed with the unseemly conduct of the voting people passing her gate. It is very common for the young con verts to request permission to speak before the congregation, ami also to pray ; ain't though illiterate, their language is beauti ful and appropriate. Another thing about Belfast is very stri king. Texts of scripture, calculated to a louse and awaken, are placarded, in large type, in the coiners of streets and road sides, such as "Jesus Christ came into the woi Id to save sinners," "Jesus Christ came te s'v'." a ml to save that which wns lo.it." While there is still much to be done fir multitudes who are unsaved in this land of superstition, this is the most direct and blessed outpouring of the Holy Spirit vouchsafed to our earth, I verily believe, since the day of I'enticost. The Lord God Aimight- has. by right eousness, exalted Ireland among the na tions of the earth, and brought her back again to the original pure gospel. Though her sister isle may, by her bad legislation, shut up the treasures of her bosom and hamper her commerce, yet the Lord is her deliverer from the bondage of sin, and the galling yoke of popery." WE ARE ALL DRUTHERS. ' Throughout this great nation we are all brothers. We are mutually dependent on each other. The lessons of Providence can and should be read. In the North, the heavens have smiled, the seasons have rolled cheerily round, and a grand harvest is gathered. In the South,, the heavens have been brass, the dry seasons have gra ted harshly on their hinges, and our poor barns are empty. But our rivers and rail roads in a few hours can bring down the surplus at the North, and banish famine from our homes. Next year it may be re versed, and then we shall furnish the North. Who knows but God may design by this providence to teach our great people their mutual dependence. We are the same people; our origin, our mothertongue, our ineient compact of tne old thirteen States, our common revolutionary oiooa, our sacred Constitution, our vast territory, our geographical unity, our noble rivers, pierc ing through the country Ironi North to South, indivisible, all proclaim that it is our dearest interest to be and remain one people. Our hopes aud those of our chil- iren are bound up together 111 the destiny of this country. The future of Christian ity is umteu with, and can never be di vorced from our national destiny. When there are so many sacred reasons for cor dial fraternity, it is the part of madness to shut our eyes against the comfort and happiness ot each other. Let us learn of God's logons, love our Constitution and our whole eon 11 try, and love one another. JStutiier of J'aei-. A SritK Paymaster. That terrible . f .- . Ti'il: saying oi .11n1e or .instria 10 juoneneu holds true for mercy as well as for judg ment : 31 y Lord Cardinal, God does not pay at the end of every week, but at the last he pays." (iod may put his faithful ones upon alongand faithful apprentice ship, during which they it arn much aud receive litiie food oiiiy, and "that 111 a measure" often the L:ea! and water of ai.'lictlon. J et at the last hi: l'!s. pays them into their hearts, pays them into their hands also. We may remember long seasons 01" faint yet honest endeavor; the prayers of a : oul yet without strength ; the sacrifices of an imperfectly subdued will. bound even with cords to the altar; we may remember such times or we may for get them, but their results are with us. Some of the good seed sown iu tears is now shedding a heavenly fragrance c with in our lives, and some of it will blossom, perhaps bear fruit over our graves. Ihe 1 atieitee of Hope,. The London Mixistky. " The most popular and able preachers" in London, according to a recent statement of Kirwan are not iu the Establishment. With all its gorgeous churches and vast endowment, it has but few men to be compared with Cumming. and Hamilton, and Spur geon, and 3iartin, aud Brock, and Punshon. TATTI.I Vi. The iVisti ni M, ih. i'rotesftnit. Spring field, ( hio. gives. among other good things, the fi l'owing receipt for making tattlers: Take a handful of the vine called Run about, the same quantity id' the root called Nimble tongue, a sprig of the root called Back-bite, at chher before or after dog days; a spoonfui of don't-yoil-tell-it, six di.'ichr.is of 31alice. a few drops of Envy, which can be purchased in any quantity at the shop of 31iss Tabitha Tea-table. . Stir them well together, and simmer them for half an hour over the fire of discon tent, kindled with a little jealousy; then strain it through the ntg of 31 i-eonstruc-tion. hang it upon a skein of Street Yarn, shake it for a few days, and it is fit for use. Let a few drops be taken before walking out. and the subject will be ena bled t.v. ,!1 tru l.r.t.i .r tv, i! :.wr.iu. ally. A .STRONG EXPRESSION. -r T r t 1 1.. . ji rs. ii. jj. itayiey, 111 a letter to the Richmond Chiistion Adroettfr, in a des cription of the celebrated Baptist preach cr, 31 r. Spurgeon, says : ".lter praying an energetic and ear nest prayer, having read the fourth chap ter of Judges, upon which he madea num ber of comments, some of them very good, lie proceeded to give out another hymn, and before reading the second verse, said, "If there are any strict Baptists here, 1 hope they will enjoy this verse, for I as sure them 1 do." He then read : 'The saints tin cnrlh and all the ili'.-nl. But one ciitiimunimi make," and continued, "all the people on earlh, nor the devils iu hell, could not make me believe iu restricted communion." WAITING. At the lieiiiilifnl ;raN! n('l!:e temjilu I till many a vvar :il", A Initio man waited, willt i'ent eye. Wateliiiig lie cl.!. and Hint-, Or ;!ic rea.-eh s.- tide nf w. r.-'.iiu. As llu-v ia.'.-i'i !".-, one l.y one. i t 'i i tne '-r. v 1.1 carlv in..ii;ii,: l'o To the .-et ..f llie poldell The volume of inspiration TjIIs of t'-ie liuiie made tviiote; How the hiiilliij; hi-. I m of heaven W;s jioured on his waiting soul. A' t!:e Ijeaurifiit gatti of thy mercy .My .-'pint, O Father waits : It looks t..r a v'leain of glory, A l:o(,e from the golden gates. And ti e hymn.- of its adoration. liise mi igl. ii nil!, tear.-and (uiin, As inorn to uighl, and uiglit morn ll watehes and vai:s iu vain. iJ, father, ,'!'.: opto the To pour the jrh omo ,'-! ' :1111s. holj ung en ;-,t-, of -P ry 1 On si:rils thai hope and wait. To whisper of thee and heaven, And teach u.s to see arighi ; On imrsouis to pour a elii-i.-m On our eyes a heavenly light. SEVEN PERSONS 1IIRN Ii) AT TIIE STAKE. A correspondent of the Sacramento ttioit. reiates the particulars, as tiir as known, of one of the most revoking acts of savagery 111 the history ol Indian bar barities. About the iid or 4tii of 3Iay last, Norman 11. Caufield, of Butte county, California, who had then recently arrived iu the Territory, with a party, composed iu all of seven persons, left Stone's Cross ing of the Truckee at Big 3Ieadows, with the intention of visiting Winneiuucca at his camp at Pyramid L.iKc,and endeavoring to obtain his peaceful permission to pros pect for silver in the vicinity of the Lake. To disarm the Indians of any thought of hostility on their part, and inspire as far as possible, a feeling of confidence and friendliness, they went without weapons of any kind, with the single exception of a revolver, which Caufield was persuaded to carry. Three or four days after this, occurred the massacre at Williams' ranch. A short time afterwards the bodies of seven men wdio had been slain were discovered lying togethel between the Truckee and Red Bluffs, and though too far decomposed and mutilated to be. re cognizable, were supposed to be those of tne Canheld party, and as such their names were published at the time; the remains were not then bnriedj and a sub sequent examination proved the error of the supposed identification. Among the volunteers iu the late Indian expedition under Col. Hays' were two very intimate friends of 3Ir. Caufield, who used every possible effort to ascertain the fate of his party; but though the form and features of all the discovered dead were carefully scrutinized, none were recognized as bear ing any resciiiblence to hi 111 or his known companions. A few days after the volun teers were withdrawn from Pyramid Luke, the regulars being then stationed there, some of the Iatier discovered among the cotton woods, below where the Indian village had stood, and near the place where the Truckee empties into the Lake, tied to as many trees, the bodies, or charred remains of seven men, who had been burn ed to death. Two or three had been fastened to the trees with log-chains, and the flesh had been entirely burned from them; the others had been tied with raw hides; and the upper portions of the bodies bore traces of identification, particularly that of Caufield, who was a robust and powerful man, remarkable in form and feature; his lower limbs and the lower part of his frame had been consumed, with the evident design to protract suscep tibility tu pain, till the bones were char red; but the upper part of the chest, the anus ami shoulders and the head were en tire; even the trim military whiskers worn by the victim were unxinged. Fur ther description and detail have also been furnished, but the revolting hitle.tusness of the picture forbids elaboration. Suf fice it that the evidence leaves to the friends of 3Ir ('anlield and his companions no possibility of d .iiht as1 to his identity, and the hori ible process of his and their death. The remains of the victims of this ter rible ot'lo tin fc were all carefully interred in one grave, beneath a large cottonwimd tree near the spot on which they died, by the soldiers under Captain Steward. Can field was from Cambridge, Washington county, New York, where his family re sided iu 1819, when ho came to California. AN nil'lIOMl'f; A( KAVKNT. During the visit at Ireland's hoiie, ati humble Wesleyan itinerant, mi his way to Con. wall, stopped at Ilristol to greet the An tiiiiaii hampion. As he arrived at lint mansion, with two fel!ov-itincr.'iul, Flet cher was returning from 11 horc-b.ik ride, which had been enjoined by bin physicians. I le n cogiiii'i'tl them as Meth odist preachers, and dismounting, has tened towards them with extended in ins. Thcv were si ruck 'y his "upotolie appearance. He riPi ited most ol the sixteenth chapter of John, on the j riiu!.i! of the Jfo'y Ghost. "My mul." cay one of the visitors. " wa dissolved in'n tend erness, and became as melting wax before the firel " They rev ret ted th effect of his cotitrovcsi il l.drttrs liiMtu his hcahh. "If lie fell a victim," ho rcplic" it was in a After a little further con versa t ion ,,up- 4 on the universal love of God in CLrUt Jesus." the visitors were about to take . their leave, when Ireland sent his foot man into the yard with a buttle of wine, and slices of bread upon a waiter; thcv nil uncovered their heads while Fletcher implored a blessing upon the refresh nn nt, which he had no sooner done, than In; handed the bread to each, ami then lift ing his eyes to heaven pronounced (he words! "The body of our Lord ,Jesim Christ, which was ghcii for tin o, ffV-erve thy body and soul unto everlasting life." Afterwards, presenting them the wine, he said in like manner: "The Mood ofon. Lord Jesus Christ," cct. -'Such a ki crainent'" hays the narractor," I never bad before. A sense of the Divine pn .net rested upon us all, and we were inched into fli a id.- of tears. We then Mounted our horses and rode away, that hour more than repaid me fur my h.,,. journey from Edii burgh lo Cornwall." Such w is Fletcher, coming out, of ihe tril'e of Ihe six gears' Calv ini.-tic contro versy, ."silt ll he Ii.nf been sini e he clilcr. ed it, and such he continued to be until io cut. red heaven. Ihiiti Clu iim, J.- 11 h ule. Till) LAsT Hoi RS OK L.U'.U I.TTL'. No life had ever been more pas-ionati !y pnhtical tlnni his: mi man had ever i.hic. .1 his ideas and political scniimcntH more constantly :d Hive all 'it her iirt'iHw-si'-siiiiiK i.r interests. But p.hlics were utterly 1111- connecied with his death. Ill fur 'three weeks, he approached his l ist hniir. ilis clnlurcu and lion t hold surroundi d bi bed ; he ceased tosj ctd., am! it wasduiib.' li.l whether he could see. His son Goot-n observed th.it w ii !i uncertain gc fur be 11.- sought for something in his bo-oni. came to h:s lathers a.-.-i.-tam-e. and l.i.-c 1 in his hand a mclalliuii which be always wow su-ponded round his K-. k. M. dc La I'ayelle raised it to his ij,s; ;l iu',u'.:i ,u- and a lock oi hairof de Madame tie i,a l a ;, ctie, whose lo-s I.e had mourned r (, -seven years, '-'bus, already s,- aral.-d from tne- etiiiie world, alone thought and image of the devoid ( ,i. paiiiou of his li!e, he died. In an:oi-.iug Ids !ini-lal, it was a rec.igtiiz.--l L'cl in the family that 31. do l.a Fayette had alway-i wished t-i be butied ill the slii.ill eeinel, 1 y adjoining the coinent of Pie;, in, by the side of his wile, in the lui-Ist of 1 ietivrf of the revolution, the o,.,.;l,.r real ists ami M-istocrats, who.-e aiiecsluis had founded that pious establishment. 'Ihe desire of the veteran uf 17!l was scrupu lously respected and complied with. An immense crowd soldiers, national guard-, and popu'ace accompanied the funeral proccssi.iii along the boulevards and slr-cts of l'ai;s Arrived at the gate of ti e convent of I'icpus, the crowd halted; the iuteri-n-enclosure could, only hold three hundred persons'. The f.ftnily, the near est relatives, and the principal aulliorilics entered, passing through the convent iu silence; then across the garden, and filial ly entered the cemetery. There no polit ical manifestation took place; no ration was pronounced ; religion and the itttiniale reminiscences of the soul alone were pres ent j public politics assumed no place near the death-bed or the grave of the man w hose life they had occupied and ruled. fJtti:.ot Memoir. 1NKI.IENCE. Far iu the distant years some deed (" lienttly, lluth struck the key nolo f a hold retrain, And many i nohlu a.-l and liigh-souled duty Led .111 I he lofty strain. Far in tlm distant yciiM itoinu ihonghl rane. jrlcaiioug. Along ihe hisi'ry of this world's gr. 'it til'-. And quivering down Iroiu hen ft lu heart ila Learn ing With fc'lory ;Jtill is l ilVt. Oh, Idest Ihe power such ile. d.i of licuw nly meel-im-ss T't I'our itdown lh- tract of coming -lays, And Idest the thoughts, lhal fill in living iiwctl ness t'pou life's common ways. And glad the gatlif-rinsr, when our linn- is fridc-l. Of all Ihe iiiHneiiri, that one hie huih cnsl ; Tilt- souls lle.l through such friit--l words t-vo t. nd. I I nwai'l to heaven at la-t. A WKsTMt.N PIONEER. A correspondent of the Watchman and Reflector, writing from Iowa, gives the following description ofa pioneer preacher " On a recent trip through the interior I met a .Methodist minister who was occ nping two mission stations in Chickasaw count', and performing the laltors of two clergymen. He was preaching on an average four sermons a week, ami traveling nearly three hundred miles per month. He is a man of robust constitution, ami perforins his arduous laltors seemingly without injury to his health. lie was ti pioneer minster in the valleys of the Sell rock ami Cedar rivers six or seven years ago, and married the first couple that were united iu Cerro Gordo c ity. I In was once crossing a broad, unset led pr airie iu Worth county, with three other )iersons, iu as many carriages, and to break up the nitinoioiiy of the ride, ami to servo God most acceptably, they held a prayer-meeting without halting their horses Two persons occupied the middle carriage, and e.i' h of them led iti the devotions. A nut her carriage then t'Sik the middle position, '.ind the persons occupying it praayed. Then the third aud fourth suc cessively took tiirt position, each person in turn engaging in prayer. It is not very uncommon thing for conference meet ings to be held while journeying through prairie land, the time being taken up in iuging and exhortations while the carri ages are in motion; but I never heard of a r'croud prayer-meeting being held under such circumstances." r r r St f t 1 i .